01/24/2008, 1:20pm, EST
Thursday, January 24th
MS security report compares Vista, Tiger
Microsoft employee Jeff Jones has published a Windows Vista one-year vulnerability report in his Security Blog that includes analysis of the Redmond-based company's newest operating system alongside its predecessor -- Windows XP -- and several competitors which include Apple's Mac OS X 10.4. A side-by-side patch event histogram comparison of Windows Vista vs. Mac OS X 10.4 shows that Windows Vista had fewer vulnerabilities and fewer times of concern for security teams.
"Windows Vista gain compares favorably against the other operating systems, having fewer vulnerabilities and having fewer weeks in which security upgrades potentially impacted security administrators," the report said.
Final observations show Vista in a positive light, focusing on positive points for Microsoft's newest operating system.
"My analysis found that researchers found and disclosed significantly fewer vulnerabilities in Windows Vista than either its predecessor product, Windows XP, or other operating systems such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, and Apple Mac OS X 10.4."
Jones' analysis also found that administrators were required to mobilize and address security concerns much less often for Windows Vista than any other operating system examined.
Filed under: security, Apple
Other story tags: Microsoft, Mac OS X, Vista, Windows
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It waaaay to early for April fools though!!! MS DIP SHIT!
... Either that, or Jeffie's gunning for a promotion.
And I certainly don’t look at how easy it is to manage the security policy for these products. Is there anything in this analysis which will prove one piece of software is “more secure” than another? No, that is not my intention."
translation: removing key points to make Vista look better on paper to other OS's
That being said, I am happy with any company that makes security strides. The more secure all OS's are the better off everyone's computing experience will be.
what is ms smoking...
we may as well compare 10.5 or 10.4 to windows 98 or windows ME.
what a crock...
more (as in "more") adv. : comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent; "he works more now"; "they eat more than they should"